Need help finding images to use in your presentations?  Do your students need a way to find images in an organized and logical way?  Google Image Swirl organizes image searches into categories based on content and similarity.  Images are presented in a “swirl” and can be explored further through additional sub-groups within each cluster.  This is also a great tool to use on an Interactive Whiteboard!  Click here to get started.

It is great to be with you today at the Fort Greely Middle School. I am using my blog today as a simple way to host the resources and materials that we are going to share today. Think of this as my classroom web page. How do you use your classroom web page to connect with your students?

An opening “Hello to Fort Greely Middle School. Click here…

I am going to ask you a question using the back channel conversation tool called Today’s Meet. Click to begin our discussion…

Another great discussion tool is called Type With Me… Click here to join the Greely group

Review sample projects in the Drop.io drop box. Click here…

It is great to kick off the 2010 – 2011 school year in the Shawnee School District in Shawnee, Oklahoma.  Today we are getting to know each other and how we can integrate 21st Century skills into the classroom.

Describe a good teacher…

Shawnee web sites….

Safe search engines for students…

It is great to kick off the 2010 – 2011 school year at Homeland Park Elementary School in Anderson, South Carolina. Today we are getting to know each other and how we can integrate 21st Century skills into the classroom.

Click here to connect to our back channel conversation…

Safe search engines for students…

HPE web sites…

TypeWith.me is a great tool to create relevant, online conversations between up to 15 authors at the same time through one URL. The text is synchronized in real time so that everyone that is working together sees all of text simultaneously. Each author is assigned a different color so that you can see who is contributing what. Use TypeWith.me for pre-assessment, book discussions, reflections, and more! There is no logging in, no registration, and best of it, it it totally free! Click here to get started!

There are tremendous assistive technology applications available for the  iPod touch and iPad.  I have been sharing these applications with special education administrators the past few weeks. There are applications available for free or at a low cost that connect with students with disabilities.
Click here for the complete list and you can download it as a .pdf file.

Today will be fun working and learning with the educators attending the Arts & Education Forum hosted by the Southeastern Center for Education in the Arts. It is always a pleasure to work with art educators because they have the greatest opportunity of all the content areas to allow students to express themselves. We will be exploring numerous ways to provide students with tools to demonstrate their skills and talent in the  arts.

There are so many new web based applications to support performance arts and one of my favorites is the Art Edge. We will be exploring this site and many others today.

“Artist are for disclosing the extraordinary in the ordinary” Maxine Greene, 1989

How many people are members of your personal learning community? Click here to post the number…

I hope that you enjoyed the day today. It would be great if you could leave a comment. Click here for the brief evaluation…